• Vediovis Saturn Sol Luna Vulcan Summanus Larunda Terminus Quirinus Vortumnus Lares Diana Lucina Elsewhere, Varro claims Sol Indiges – who had a sacred grove...
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    explains in some detail in his Deutsche Mythologie: Larva betrays its affinity to lar ..., and the good kindly lares were often held to be manes or souls...
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    Balthasar (1517), page A5 reads "lares foci sunt vulgo kobelte" as requoted in Grimms DW "Kobold" III. 2). Lares being household or hearth goddesses...
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  • goddess's purpose was to safeguard the stonework from fire damage. Only the Lares Augusti outnumber her as recipients of surviving dedications from compital...
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  • half-self, more like genii; also Gdywend Mythologie bei der Romer par. 261: in Sabine, godly people, maybe Lares. Besides all the dii medioxumi belong to...
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    Iustinus Apologeticum II 12, 4–5; G. Pucci "Saturno: il lato oscuro" in Lares LVIII 1992 p. 5-7. Wissowa (1912), pp. 100–101; Dumézil (1996), p. 348;...
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    tempest, but can also become a luck-bringing domestic sprite identified with lares and penates. The Schrat might also show behavior similar to the devil or...
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    concept of Genius to expand annexing other similar religious figures as the Lares and the Greek δαίμων ἀγαθός. The genius was believed to be associated with...
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    according to Holbach, are in the imagination of Christians what Nymphs, Lares, and Fairies are in the minds of pagans and Romans. Again, he emphasizes...
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